Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man: Out of Season
Bud Scoppa, Paste, 1 February 2004
AS THE VOCAL instrument of Portishead, Beth Gibbons was the centerpiece of 1994's Dummy, a trip-hop landmark and one of the great albums of the 1990s. Embedded in Geoff Barrow's avant-garde sound collages, Gibbons' unmistakable vocals, at once icy and in-your-ear intimate, cast an eerily existential spell.
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